Quotes About Intellectual

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

there is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law.

Daydreaming is not an intellectual process but rather an escape from intellectualism.

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation ... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

The Gnostic's passionate adoration of Sophia was known as philosophia – the love of Sophia – a mystical communication with divine feminine wisdom, having little to do with the strictly intellectual, most often masculine, pursuit currently labeled "philosophy.

We need useless theory more than ever today.

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

Largely excluded from the white masculine political sphere, black male scholars established intellectual organizations where they could not only distance themselves from women but also perform a masculinity parallel to that established by white male scholars.

As minstrelsy and spirituals were succeeded by the new musical forms of the turn of the century, increasing numbers of white people began to join Twain and respond to African American life by seeing the intellectual shackles in their own lives and learning the lessons that those at the bottom of the social pyramid had to offer.

We mustn't feel bad because someone steals our ideas. It happens. Instead, we should feel bad that they didn't have any of their own to begin with.

A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess. - Gordon

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.